bugeye

bugeye
/bug"uy'/, n., pl. bugeyes. Naut.
a ketch-rigged sailing vessel used on Chesapeake Bay.
[1880-85, Amer.; BUG1 + EYE, after the former practice of painting a large eye on each bow]

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